A list of basic bad carbs to avoid

What Makes a Bad Carb?

Bad carbs are typically those carbohydrates that have been heavily processed.  They have been refined, preserved and flavored to make them more attractive to consumers.  They make you feel good for half an hour, and they taste good – but the long and short term effects they will have on your weight and your health hardly make the trade-off worth it. The saying, ‘a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips’ was written about bad carbs.

So what kinds of foods would go into a list of bard carbs?  Well, it’s difficult to list everything that you could call a bad carb, but the general rule is that if it’s white and wrapped in plastic, it’s probably a bad carb.  Here’s a list of bad carbs to use as a guideline.

• White bread
• Potatoes 
• flour, pasta
•  rice
• Burger buns
• Tortillas and wraps
• Breadcrumbs on fried chicken
• Bread sticks
• Cookies and biscuits,
• Pizza dough

That’s not everything that would be on a Grand List of Bad Carbs, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what makes up a list of bad carbs – and it’s pretty frightening.  How many of these things have you eaten in the last week?  How about in the last month?